British Journal of Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Psychology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pain in the eye of the beholder: Variations in pain visual representations as a function of face ethnicity and culture64
Object space is embodied61
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The Cambridge handbook of working memory and languageBy John W.Schwieter and Zhisheng (Edward)Wen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover US 44
Temporal dynamics of cue integration for sense of agency in social comparative context38
Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect35
Clinical and cost‐effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for treatment and prevention of post‐traumatic stress disorder in adults: A systematic review and meta‐analysis32
Attention and vigilance advantages related to formal musical training across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood31
Editorial acknowledgement29
Comparison of face‐based and voice‐based first impressions in a Chinese sample27
Spatial memory under emotion: Effects across encoding, maintenance and retrieval27
Effects of relative deprivation on change in displaced aggression and the underlying motivation mechanism: A three‐wave cross‐lagged analysis23
What ugly and beautiful photographs reveal about COVID ‐19 lockdown experiences, everyday aesthetics and photography aesthetics23
What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts23
“I got all sorts of solitude, but that solitude wasn't mine”: A mixed‐methods approach to understanding aloneness during becoming a mother22
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other‐‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives21
On the role of experience versus motivation in predicting the own‐race effect20
Understanding trait impressions from faces17
The shape of time: How temporal landmarks influence shape preference16
Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review16
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Learning in the face of failure: The benefit of autistic traits16
Mood induction through imitation of full‐body movements with different affective intentions15
The impact of response type on affordance and spatial compatibility effects in human and object interactions15
Reactions to research on sex differences: Effect of sex favoured, researcher sex, and importance of sex‐difference domain15
Personality psychology: A new perspective By JanekMusek, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. 2024. Ebook £96.29. ISBN 978‐3‐031‐55308‐015
Unveiling the factors of aesthetic preferences with explainable AI15
‘Sweet poison’ and ‘mild medicine’: Different effects of collective narcissism and collective self‐esteem on ingroup versus outgroup conspiracy beliefs15
Statistical modelling of vignette data in psychology14
Identifying subtypes in persons, situations and person–situation interactions: Categorical latent state–trait modelling approaches14
Measuring the felt sense of dehumanization: A COSMIN systematic review of the psychometric properties of self‐ and meta‐dehumanization measures14
Editorial Acknowledgement13
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's landmark special issue on diversity13
Emotion ensemble judgement: Cognitive training for a positive perspective13
Sorries seem to have the harder words12
Leading by example: Experimental evidence that therapist lived experience disclosures can model the path to recovery for clients12
Moral reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: An investigation into perspective‐taking accessibility in the context of autonomous vehicles11
The influence of socio‐economic status on child temperament and psychological symptom profiles11
The effects of the presence of a face and direct eye gaze on voice identity learning11
Explanation strategies in humans versus current explainable artificial intelligence: Insights from image classification11
Caregivers' time poverty, parenting styles and children's growth mindset11
The effectiveness of implementation intentions in children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Satisfied on our own, yet ready to leave together: An actor–partner interdependence mediation model on job satisfaction and turnover intentions in leader–follower dyads10
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The sociological interpretation of dreams, by BernardLahire. Oxford, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Hardback, USD 42.82, ISBN 9781509537945.10
Longitudinal relations among perceived parental warmth, self‐esteem and social behaviours from middle childhood to early adolescence in China: Disentangling between‐ and within‐person associations10
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The effects of implicit emotion regulation on impulsive choice10
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The meaning of masculinity for educated young Bedouins10
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Are there gender differences in promotion–prevention self‐regulatory focus?10
Automatic or controlled: How does disbelief in free will influence cognitive functioning?9
Importance of transgender nuances in research and advocacy: Reply to Morgenroth (2025) and Tate (2025)9
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Default categorization of outgroup faces and the other race effect: Commentary on the special issue9
Larger comfortable interpersonal distances in adults exposed to child maltreatment: The role of depressive symptoms and social anxiety8
Relations among daily symptoms of depression8
Inconsistent yet unyielding: Persistence of contradictory beliefs and strategies for their reconciliation8
Why moral judgements change across variations of trolley‐like problems8
The state of modelling face processing in humans with deep learning8
Comparison of outcomes across low‐intensity psychological interventions for depression and anxiety within a stepped‐care setting: A naturalistic cohort study using propensity score modelling8
Protecting against misinformation: Evaluating the effectiveness of three techniques to reduce memory conformity8
Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals8
Comparability between AI and human cognition and its role in psychological research and AI ethics8
How living in economically unequal societies shapes our minds and our social lives8
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events7
Is poor control over thoughts and emotions related to a higher tendency to delay tasks? The link between procrastination, emotional dysregulation and attentional control7
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Perceiving visual events uses optical information that reflects dynamics rather than resembles appearance7
Assessing novelty, feasibility and value of creative ideas with an unsupervised approach using GPT‐47
One size does not fit all: Exploring how the five‐factor model facets predict disordered eating behaviours among adolescent and young adult males and females7
Human populations are not biologically and genetically discrete7
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Development of a theory of mind assessment for children using multidimensional Rasch modelling7
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A multi‐analyses approach of inductive/deductive asymmetry in the affective priming paradigm7
A novel index to measure pre‐planning in the Tower of London task: Test–retest reliability and known‐group validity7
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Emotion‐driven or relationship‐driven? Longitudinal associations between insecure parent–child attachment, perceived family support and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents7
Lonely individuals reveal proximal social avoidance and distal general approach motivation: Evidence from time perception in social and non‐social contexts6
Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification6
Negative targets specifically enhance conscious and unconscious social attention6
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order6
Scoping review on natural language processing applications in counselling and psychotherapy6
Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's Landmark Issue on digital futures6
The longitudinal relationship between family socioeconomic status and students' academic achievement: The mediating roles of learning anxiety‐learning engagement profiles and the moderating role of ne6
Decoding the language of first impressions: Comparing models of first impressions of faces derived from free‐text descriptions and trait ratings6
Advice‐taking in carbon footprint assessments: How psychological and cultural factors shape reliance on experts' advice6
We need to move beyond rating scales, white faces and adult perceivers: Invited Commentary on Sutherland & Young (2022), understanding trait impressions from faces6
Universal threads: Shared sociopolitical roots and consequences of extrasensory perception and pseudoscientific beliefs6
Electrophysiological correlates of dispositional mindfulness: A quantitative and complexity EEG study6
The Status Importance Scale: Development and validation of a self‐report questionnaire for measuring how much people care about status6
Impact of similarity on recognition of faces of Black and White targets6
Keep bright in the dark: Multimodal emotional effects on donation‐based crowdfunding performance and their empathic mechanisms6
Autistic adults form first impressions from voices in similar ways to non‐autistic adults5
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Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study5
A test of the M orality‐ A gency‐ C ommunion ( 5
Family‐focused treatment for child and adolescent mental health: A new paradigm By PaulSunseri, New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. 256. £28.79. ISBN 978‐1‐003‐39736‐65
Empathy and parenthood: The moderating role of maternal trait empathy on parental burnout5
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk5
The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies5
Perceiving multiple truths: Does dialectical thinking harmonize colourblind and multicultural ideals?5
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Increases in sense of purpose predict future positive changes in personality traits5
The moderating roles of resilience and social support in the relationships between bullying victimization and well‐being among Chinese adolescents: Evidence from PISA 5
Red meat, reactance and political party: Defensive processing of empathy‐based meat reduction appeals4
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults4
Predictors of online and offline activism in hybrid regime society – Serbian study4
Effects of phonological awareness and morphological awareness on blind students' reading comprehension4
Counselling children and adolescents: Working in school and clinical mental health settings (Special Indian edition) By JolieZiomek‐Daigle, New York, NY: Routledge. 2017. UK £ 56.99. ISBN: 978036724034
First impressions from faces in the real world: Commentary on Sutherland and Young (2022)4
Research and evaluation in education and psychology: Integrating diversity with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodsby Donna M.Mertens, SAGE Publications. 2024. 6th edition, 528 pp. ISBN: 978‐4
The social‐encoding benefit in face recognition is generalized to other‐race faces4
Popcorn politics: Entertainment appraisals predict support for populist leaders4
How to support learning with multimedia instruction: Implementation intentions help even when load is high4
The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: Theoretical and methodological considerations4
The culture of perceptual expertise and the other‐race effect4
Spatial attention based on 2D location and relative depth order modulates visual working memory in a 3D 4
Language about gender/sex should be used intentionally and flexibly4
Ingroup and outgroup differences in face detection4
Working memory capacity and self‐cues: Consistent benefits in children and adults4
Problematic smartphone use in early adolescence: Developmental heterogeneity and bidirectional links with risk factors4
The necessity of motoric engagement in enhancing route memory4
Before/after Bayes: A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian mixed‐effects models in applied psychological research4
Inter‐brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs3
Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries3
Who tends to be a perfectionistic adolescent? Distinguishing perfectionism from excellencism and investigating the links with the Big Five and self‐esteem3
The method of loci in the context of psychological research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
Increase in physiological inhibitory control results in better suppression of unwanted memories3
Correction to ‘Explainability increases trust resilience in intelligent agents’3
Why existential threats increase conspiracy beliefs: Evidence for the mediating roles of agency detection and pattern perception3
Quantitative psychology: The 88th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society By MarieWiberg, Jee‐SeonKim, HeungsunHwang, HaoWu, TracySweet (eds.), Springer proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics,3
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The rhythm of sensory input shapes audio‐visual temporal processing3
Sex differences in reading and math test scores of children: A heterodoxical model By HobenThomas, Monographs in the psychology of education, Springer, 2023; ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐41271‐4 (print), 978‐3‐0313
Serial dependence in time perception requires consistent motor responses, not shared memory alone3
A recognition advantage for members of higher‐status racial groups3
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Exploring the associations of generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling: Empirical evidence from 34 cultures3
Not so different and not deficient: First‐ and continuing‐generation students' selves and self‐discrepancies3
Loneliness is associated with a greater self‐reference effect in episodic memory when compared against a close friend3
Positive and negative touch differentially modulate metacognitive memory judgements for emotional stimuli3
The psychology of meditation: Varieties, effects, theories and perspectives. PeterSedlmeier. Newburyport, MA: Hogrefe. 2021. Softcover US $44.80, ISBN 97808893757652
Staying in control: Characterizing the mechanisms underlying cognitive control in high and low arousal states2
Expressive suppression strengthens coherence between arousal intensity and arousal interpretation2
Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions2
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Mathematical psychology: The world of thoughts as a quantum space‐time with a gravitational core By NorbertSchwarzer, Jenny Stanford Publishing. 2024. 511 pp. ISBN: 9789815129274 (Hardcover), 978100352
Perinatal women dominantly protect—rather than submissively cede—resources when interacting with threatening‐looking others2
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Psychology and gender: An advanced reader By Sadhana AvinashNatu (Ed.), London: Routledge India. 2024. 222 pp. ₹1295. ISBN : 97810325187322
Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non‐social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach2
Social sharing of emotion during the collective crisis of COVID ‐192
Preparing children to cope with earthquakes: Building emotional competence2
Involuntary remembering and ADHD : Do individuals with ADHD symptoms experience high volumes of in2
The alone team: How an alone mindset affects group processes2
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Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures2
Editorial acknowledgement2
Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children2
Mapping the maze: A network analysis of social–emotional skills among children and adolescents with social–emotional difficulties2
A nonlinear association between chronic stress and instrumental reward learning under Pavlovian conflict: Behavioural and computational evidence2
Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime2
Justice perceptions and well‐being : Belief in a just world is a personal resource and a coping resource2
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society journals' landmark special issue on the United Nation's Sustainability Goals2
Explainability increases trust resilience in intelligent agents2
What the Solitaire illusion tells us about perception of numerosity2
Attraction in every sense: How looks, voice, movement and scent draw us to future lovers and friends2
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